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Bangkok is turning into a giant art gallery
Bloomberg News, Published on 23/10/2018
» Bangkok is renowned for street food and shopping delights as well as notorious nightlife, but the latest effort to woo tourists aims for the cultural high ground by turning the metropolis into an art gallery.
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Dubai floods expose weaknesses to a rapidly changing climate
Bloomberg News, Published on 20/04/2024
» DUBAI - The heavy rains that flooded Dubai this week halted air traffic, damaged buildings and streets — and left climate experts and common citizens asking whether one of the world’s hottest and driest cities should be better prepared for extreme storms.
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HSBC executive in climate row quits, attacks corporate ‘cancel culture’
Bloomberg News, Published on 07/07/2022
» The HSBC Holdings Plc executive at the centre of a row over climate change risks has resigned from the bank as he issued a broadside against corporate “cancel culture.”
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Singapore, New Zealand agree to enhance climate cooperation
Bloomberg News, Published on 19/04/2022
» Singapore and New Zealand have agreed to enhance cooperation on a range of climate issues, ranging from low carbon technology to sustainable aviation initiatives, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday.
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Climate talks in Bangkok hit hurdle over finances
Bloomberg News, Published on 10/09/2018
» Climate negotiators in Bangkok made progress on several issues to set a framework for implementing the landmark 2015 Paris accord, but hit a stumbling block over details behind a plan for developed countries to spend $100 billion a year to finance projects in the developing world.
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The case for flying cars as a climate solution
Bloomberg News, Published on 13/04/2023
» SILICON VALLEY: George Jetson, the character in the animated television series The Jetsons, was born in a fictional 2022. By the time he reaches middle age, forty years later, people are zooming around in flying cars.
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US environment chief exits G7 climate talks early
Bloomberg News, Published on 11/06/2017
» ROME -- US environment chief Scott Pruitt is being recalled from Group of Seven climate talks in Italy. Mr Pruitt, who as Environmental Protection Agency administrator successfully campaigned for the US to quit the landmark Paris climate agreement, will leave Bologna for a meeting with President Donald Trump just hours after arriving Sunday, according to a spokesman for the G-7 talks, Davide Russo.
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Antarctica heat wave brings enormous temperature jump
Bloomberg News, Published on 30/03/2022
» A heat wave in Antarctica earlier this month was so extreme that it may be the largest temperature increase above normal ever recorded, according to Robert Rohde, lead scientist at the non-profit Berkeley Earth, who analysed global records.
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I’m no orangutan killer, says CEO trying to fix palm oil
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/12/2019
» SINGAPORE: Carl Bek-Nielsen, who’s about to give a tour of the palm oil plantations he runs in Malaysia, is reflecting on a story by the New York Times earlier this year about an orangutan that was shot 74 times and found close to death on an oil palm estate in Indonesia.
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Thailand, Japan to sign emissions-offset agreement
Bloomberg News, Published on 17/11/2015
» TOKYO — Japan plans to sign an agreement with Thailand as part of a programme to offset its emissions in exchange for clean-energy and energy-saving technologies.
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